ula Oswald Spring, Professor at UNAM-CRIM, xico; first UNU-EHS chair on social vulnerability; she writes on sustainability, development, gender, disaster, poverty and collaborates with peasants.
Global news Day for children highlights - Xinhua journalists will work with local civil society groups in various countries to produce special profiles of 10 children affected by complex challenges such as armed conflict, environmental degradation, natural disaster poverty, disability and poor access to education and health, to present the human side of the situation of children.
In fact, the euro has spared Greece from an even greater disaster: poverty-inducing hyperinflation.
This would be devastating for the poorest countries and those in crisis due to natural disasters, poverty, disease, debt, food or financial collapse.
Shortage of storage facilities, lack of academic education, frequent natural disasters, poverty, and lack of strict monitoring systems sometimes lead the crooked producers and businessmen not to apply the standard food processing procedures; rather frequently they add uncontrolled amount of different food preservatives and/or antioxidants in the food products, thus make the product adulterated.
"Too many children are now starting their lives in extreme circumstances – from conflict to natural disasters, poverty, disease or malnutrition.
They know it because their first instinct is to protect their students from that which promises to harm them, whether it's bullets, natural disasters, poverty, hunger or ignorance.
In this sense, we could view global health ethics as being concerned primarily with pandemics, natural disasters, poverty, and other phenomena that effect large populations.
Citing evidence from observations in humans, work in experimental animals, and inferences from related studies in other fields, the authors note that a "wealth of ecological associations link TB with malnutrition in populations affected by famine, war, natural disasters, poverty, mass migration, and confinement in prisons or ghettos".
Amongst the challenges faced by children in an urban world include increased migration from rural to urban centres, vulnerability during economic crises, urban violence, safety and health risks during natural and man-made disasters, poverty as well as exclusion from access to basic necessities such as clean water and education.
Instead he was able to raise again those wider, more fundamental questions of environmental disaster, global poverty and capital's incessant desire for "growth".
